When Waring Hudsucker, head of a successful company commits suicide, the board of directors has a plan to make a lot of money, so they decide to appoint a moron to run the company. Mailroom clerk Norville Barnes is exactly what Hudsucker is looking for to be president. They hope that as soon as the stock falls low enough, the director and his friends will buy them up cheaply, take over the company and they will be successful again. However, a tough...

An early look at the impact of mass media in the public arena, featuring the story of a cynical and manipulative journalist. When a man is trapped alive in a mine collapse, an amoral, down-on-his-luck reporter takes over and prolongs the rescue effort in order to make a name for himself.

Over 5300 years ago, a Neolithic clan settled near a creek. While their leader Kelab is hunting, the settlement is attacked, and the tribe is brutally murdered, amongst them Kelab's wife and son. He sets out after the murderers on what turns into a grand odyssey where he must fight constantly against the forces of nature; against hunters; the loneliness of the quest, and the growing sense of doubt over the morality' of his mission.

Explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.

What’s it like to dedicate your life to work that won’t be completed in your lifetime? Fifteen years ago, filmmaker David Licata focused on four projects and the people behind them in an effort to answer this universal question. The subjects are Jill Tarter, Director of the SETI Institute, who has been involved in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence since the 1970s and who was the basis for the Ellie Arroway character in Carl Sagan’s...

Hugh Laurie stars as the brilliant but sarcastic Dr. Gregory House, a maverick physician who is devoid of bedside manner. Dr. House thrives on the challenge of solving medical puzzles that other doctors give up on.

A TV cameraman, trampled by a half-back while shooting a football game, and his shyster brother-in-law team up to defraud an insurance company in a million dollar law suit.

When a boy dies a few days after a forensic pathologist hits him with a car, the doctor sets out to discover the actual cause of death.

In this contemporary sci-fi love story about a newlywed couple, they turn to a scientist for help having a baby. Then, they find themselves at the center of a genetic puzzle with far-reaching implications and an ethically ambiguous solution.

A powerful new medical drama that focuses on the final years of a young doctor's training and rips back the curtain to reveal both the good and the bad in hospitals across the country.